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	The Preservation Society of Newport County (Aquidneck.US Directory Listing) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Preservation Society of Newport County is accredited by the American Association of Museums, a recognition of excellence within the museum community.
		The Preservation Society was founded in 1945 as a private, non-profit educational organization.
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	Fewer tourists visiting Newport mansions - The Boston Globe
		NEWPORT, R.I. -- The Preservation Society of Newport County is concerned about a drop in the number of visitors to its opulent mansions, a trend the head of the organization described as a ''major concern."
		The society's Gilded Age mansions, which include The Breakers and Marble House, draw about 800,000 visitors a year and are the fourth most-visited cultural attraction in New England.
		The society, which will celebrate its 60th birthday next weekend, is the state's largest cultural organization, with a budget of $18 million in 2005 and a staff of more than 120 full-time workers.
	www.boston.com /news/local/rhode_island/articles/2005/08/08/fewer_tourists_visiting_newport_mansions (407 words)

	Newport Music Festival
		Newport by car from New York is 3.5 hours via the New England Turnpike, 95 North to Route 138 East, then follow signs to the Newport Bridge; from Boston 90 minutes via Route 24 South to Route 114 South.
		Newport's historic and resort attractions are world-famous and include nine beautiful beaches, the Cliff Walk, Ocean Drive and a series of "firsts" in America: Touro Synagogue, the Redwood Library, the White Horse Tavern, and even America's first organ at famous Trinity Church.
		The Preservation Society of Newport County, its mansions, The Breakers, Rosecliff, Marble House, The Elms, Chateau-sur-Mer, Kingscote, and Hunter House are open every day of the week with informative guided tours.
	www.newportmusic.org /200Travel.htm (259 words)

	Preservations Society of Newport, Rhode Island
		The Preservation Society of Newport County saved six Newport mansions from decay or destruction, and has opened them for the benefit of the public.
		The Society, at 118 Mill Street, maintains the six Newport mansions, plus Hunter House(a colonial house built in 1748), and Green Animals (a topiary garden with 80 sculptured trees and shrubs, many in the shapes of animals, in Portsmouth to the north of Newport).
		Preservation Society headquarters on Bellevue Avenue, Newport RI.
	www.newenglandtravelplanner.com /go/ri/newport/sights/preserv_soc.html (247 words)

	The Preservation Society of Newport County - Online Ticket Center
		Rosecliff is now preserved through the generosity of its last private owners, Mr.
		Newport Mansions Experience tickets will be accepted for The Elms Rooftop and Behind-the-Scenes Tour on those 3 days only.
		This ticket is good for admission to any one Preservation Society property, except The Breakers and Hunter House.
	tickets.newportmansions.org /mansion.aspx?id=1001 (372 words)

	What to See and Do in Newport RI (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Newport RI is in a class of its own when it comes to destinations.
		Newport RI is recognized as the yachting capital of America and a magnet for vacationers to New England.
		Newport RI is located at the eastern mouth of Narragansett Bay and on the southern end of Aquidneck Island.
	www.new-england-vacations-guide.com.cob-web.org:8888 /newport-ri.html (1608 words)

	Preservation Society of Newport County - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Preservation Society of Newport County is a non-profit organization based in Newport, Rhode Island.
		The organization's mission is to preserve the architectural heritage of Newport County, Rhode Island.
		The Preservation Society of Newport County was founded in 1945 by a dedicated and concerned group of Newporters led by Katherine and George Warren to save Hunter House from demolition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Preservation_Society_of_Newport_County (200 words)

	Visiting Newport Rhode Island
		Newport was a center for trade with China and the whaling industry in the early 1800's.
		The Newport Colony House (statehouse for the colony that was built between 1736 and 1739); the
		Newport Art Museum is to present the visual arts of Newport and Rhode Island - from colonial days to the present.
	www.jamestown-ri.info /VisitingNewport.htm (2245 words)

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		The "Cottages" of Newport - stately summer homes set in the magnificent surroundings of Rhode Island Sound - are world famous for their grandeur and beauty, largely because of the efforts of The Preservation Society of Newport County.
		The Preservation Society was founded in August 1945 with the intent of preserving Newport's architectural and artistic heritage by restoring and revitalizing Newport's outstanding properties.
		The Society today keeps eight properties open to the pubilc, conducts an extensive education program involving the houses and furnishings and leads a beautification program for the specious gardens and grounds.
	www.gswindowtinting.net /protection-aes.html (325 words)

	Newport CVB E-News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Preservation Society of Newport County (PSNC) celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2005 with a year-long series of special events, tours and exhibits, looking back at its accomplishments and looking ahead to future challenges as one of the nation's premier historic preservation organizations.
		In 2004, the Preservation Society was awarded accreditation by the American Association of Museums, a mark of excellence achieved by only 750 of the nation's 16,000 museums.
		The Society's collection of historic house museums includes Hunter House (c.1748), Kingscote (1841), Chateau-sur-Mer (1852), Green Animals Topiary Garden (c.1860), Chepstow (1861), Isaac Bell House (1883), Marble House (1892), The Breakers (1895), The Breakers Stable and Carriage House (1895), The Elms (1901) and Rosecliff (1902).
	www.gonewport.com /enews/mar05/com01.htm (277 words)

	Newport CVB E-News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Preservation Society of Newport County will dazzle visitors this holiday season, featuring three magnificent Gilded Age houses decorated in full holiday regalia beginning on November 12 through January 2, 2005, with the exception Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
		The Preservation Society's 3rd annual Holiday Dinner Dance will be held on Saturday evening, December 18 at Rosecliff.
		Newport's Island Moving Company will stage 13 interactive performances of the holiday classic The Nutcracker at Rosecliff from Friday, November 26 through Friday, December 3.
	www.gonewport.com /enews/sept04/com05.htm (351 words)

	Preservation (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Preservation (Library of Congress)The mission of the Preservation Directorate at the Library of Congress is to assure long-term, uninterrupted access to the intellectual content of the...
		Preservation MarylandFounded in 1931 as the Society for the Preservation of Maryland Antiquities, Preservation Maryland is the state's oldest historic preservation organization.www.preservemd.org/ - 14k
		Preservation Resource Center 504-581-7032Founded in 1974, the Preservation Resource Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of historic architecture and neighborhoods of...
	preservation.fmup.org.pl.cob-web.org:8888 (1298 words)

	ECOTRAVEL in Newport, Rhode Island
		Newport, Rhode Island, with a permanent population of scarcely 28,000, attracts 3.5 million visitors a year to more than 300 special events from races and regattas to jazz and film festivals.
		The Society manages nine buildings spanning 250 years of architectural and social history as well as sponsoring concerts, lectures and symposia to pay for the upkeep.
		The Newport Aquarium (shark-petting permitted) is at Easton’s Beach, and downtown on Market Square the Rhode Island Fishermen & Whale Museum in the Seaman's Church Institute was designed by a marine biologist to demonstrate operational environmental awareness in the state's oldest industry.
	www.goodmoney.com /newport.htm (1167 words)

	Newport Rhode Island Mansions & Museums Newport RI Beaches & Tourist Information in Newport County Rhode Island (via ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The only Newport Mansion where the owners still live in residence and open their home for the public to enjoy the beauty of a Richard Morris Hunt masterpiece.
		Relive Newport's Gilded Age at the Breakers, the Elms, Marble House, Rosecliff, Chateau-sur-Mer, and others.
		Organization devoted to the preservation of historic watercraft.
	www.newportinns.com.cob-web.org:8888 /newport_mansions_museums.htm (349 words)

	The Preservation Society Of Newport County's Mansions - Community - TurnTo10.com \| WJAR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		(Newport, RI)- Authentic 19th century coaches drawn by matched and highly-trained teams of horses will return to Newport from August 17th-20th, 2006, in the triennial renewal of a Weekend of Coaching, hosted by The Preservation Society of Newport County.
		The historic coaches will make daily runs through the streets of Newport and the grounds of the Newport Mansions, celebrating and preserving a century-old tradition of horsemanship and elegance.
		As many as 16 “whips,” as the drivers are known, are expected to bring their coaches and teams to Newport from around the country.
	www.turnto10.com /community/9566603/detail.html (196 words)

	The Preservation Society of Newport County - Online Ticket Center
		Brayton's daughter Alice gave the estate its name because of the profusion of "green animals." She made the estate her permanent residence in 1940.
		Upon her death in 1972, at the age of 94, Miss Brayton left Green Animals to The Preservation Society of Newport County.
		Today, Green Animals remains as a rare example of a self-sufficient estate combining formal topiaries, vegetable and herb gardens, orchards and a Victorian house overlooking Narragansett Bay.
	tickets.newportmansions.org /mansion.aspx?id=1003 (334 words)

	Festive Christmas Celebrations Planned at the Newport Mansions; Photo Available (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		NEWPORT, R.I., Oct. 21 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Planning for Christmas holiday festivities is well underway at the Newport Mansions, where three magnificent Gilded Age houses will be decorated in full holiday regalia beginning on November 12 and open daily for tours through January 2, 2005.
		The Christmas season is the perfect time to tour the Newport Mansions, when The Breakers (1895), The Elms (1901) and Marble House (1892) are filled with spectacular evergreens, trees and wreaths, thousands of poinsettias and fresh flowers, and 19th century-style ornaments.
		Preservation Society members enjoy reduced admission, $20 in advance, $25 at the door.
	releases.usnewswire.com /GetRelease.asp?id=38606 (600 words)

	Buildings and Landscapes
		As a graduate student in Historic Preservation, he was a Fellow of the Smithsonian Institution's Conservation Analytical Laboratory.
		Late nineteenth-century Newport was a place where promising architects could demonstrate their talents by designing elaborate homes for wealthy summer residents.
		The 1883 Isaac Bell House is an early example of a Shingle Style house and is now in the collection of the Preservation Society of Newport County.
	www.uri.edu /rich/speakers_bureau/buildings.html (1298 words)

	ABC News: 4 Held in Theft From Historic R.I. Mansion
		Four Students Arrested in Theft From Historic Breakers Mansion in Newport, R.I. This photo provided by The Preservation Society of Newport County, shows a Louis XV style gilt-bronze candelabrum by Raingo Freres, French, circa 1895.
		The Breakers, operated by the Preservation Society of Newport County, was undergoing repair work that may have undermined its security system.
		Trudy Coxe, executive director of the Preservation Society of Newport County, which operates the Breakers, said Wednesday that most items have been recovered, including some not initially reported missing a silver inkwell, two books and a bust of Hermes, the Greek god of trade and profit.
	abcnews.go.com /US/wireStory?id=1920859 (466 words)

	Newport Mansion: The Breakers
		Opulence is a word easily applied to the grandest of Newport Rhode Island’s summer “cottages” – The Breakers.
		Inspired by the finest French buildings such as the Paris Opera, the walls are sheathed in pale gray and gold paneling and enhanced by rich green and gold fabrics.
		She was an ardent preservationist and in 1948 opened the house to raise funds for the Preservationist Society.
	www.antiquesjournal.com /Pages04/Monthly_pages/july06/newport.html (1208 words)

	VSA Preservation Award 2001
		Constructed in 1883, the house is widely acclaimed as one of the finest and most intact examples of domestic shingle style architecture in the United States.
		The interior restoration is an ongoing project used as a textbook study for preservation professionals and for guided tours to the public.
		With the aid of historic photographs discovered at a critical juncture, she was able to replicate the missing facade elements with great accuracy, even replacing the finials at the corners of the rooftop balustrade.
	www.victoriansociety.org /presawards2001.html (939 words)

	Preservation Online: Today's News Archives: New Roof for Newport Mansion
		Built in 1852 for China trade merchant William Shepard Wetmore, the Italianate Chateau-sur-Mer was once the "grandest house in Newport," inspiring the Vanderbilts and other high-society families to build their own spacious estates in the community.
		Three generations of the Wetmores lived there until 1969, when the preservation society opened it as a museum.
		While the house is generally in good condition, leaks and water damage motivated the preservation society to get the roof repaired.
	www.nationaltrust.org /Magazine/archives/arc_news_2005/060105.htm (690 words)

	Getaway Guides: Newport, Rhode Island: Diversions
		Nowhere else can you see such a concentration of palatial mansions, and nine are open to the public under individual or the collective auspices of the Preservation Society of Newport County.
		Run by the Preservation Society of Newport County, the property displays 80 trees and shrubs sculpted into shapes of a camel, giraffe, lion and elephant at the corners of the original garden, plus a donkey, ostrich, bear, horse and rider, dogs, birds and more.
		Willed to the society in 1972 by Alice Brayton, one of its stalwart members, the delightful small country estate sloping toward Narragansett Bay also has espaliered fruit trees, a grape arbor, dahlia and vegetable gardens, and a gift and garden shop where you can buy forms to make your own topiary.
	www.getawayguides.com /rhodeisland/newport/diversions.htm (977 words)

	New Family Tour of Vanderbilt Mansion Offers Visitors a Child's Perspective on the Gilded Age... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		NEWPORT, R.I., June 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Let your children imagine they are the richest kids in the world.
		Tickets can be purchased online at http://www.NewportMansions.org or at any Preservation Society property, at the Newport Mansions Stores, or at the Newport Visitors Center.
		The Preservation Society of Newport County, Rhode Island is a non-profit educational organization accredited by the American Association of Museums and dedicated to preserving and interpreting the area's historic architecture, landscapes and decorative arts.
	releases.usnewswire.com /GetRelease.asp?id=32709 (439 words)

	Child & Family Services of Newport County - News & Events
		PETER S. Newport County --- Peter S. Damon of Middletown was recently named Chairman of the Board of Directors of Child & Family Services (CFS).
		He is also a trustee of the Rhode Island Foundation and sits on the advisory board of the Newport County Fund of the Rhode Island Foundation.
		Damon is a trustee of the Preservation Society of Newport County, a member of the community board of the United Way of Rhode Island, the Governor’s Planning Council of Rhode Island and of Grow Smart.
	www.cfsnewport.org /press1.asp?ID=40 (238 words)

	Membership and Support - Newport Mansions
		"The historic houses of the Preservation Society open doors into the past, into the lives of extraordinary people, where we are given the opportunity to experience the art, architecture and beauty they left behind.
		The cost of maintaining and preserving these unique and priceless treasures so that they can continue to be appreciated by future generations is staggering.
		The Society’s “youngest” property is now over 100 years old; its oldest was built more than 250 years ago.
	www.newportmansions.org /page3603.cfm (228 words)

	The Mansions of Newport - UnCommon Places in Rhode Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Visit the Newport Mansions and return to the Gilded Age in America, when wealth was "strutted" by those who were seemingly trying to prove they could have the most of the best!
		Or...you can enjoy visiting AND become a part of the preservation of these American treasures by becoming a member of The Preservation Society of Newport County, whether you reside in RI or not.
		Several types of one-year memberships are available which provide unlimited entrance to all properties (except for special events), a percentage discount at the museum stores associated with the mansions and quarterly issues of the Society's publication.
	www.uncommondays.com /states/ri/places/mansions.htm (169 words)

	ePreservation.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		We invite you to join The Preservation Society of Newport County and become a member of a cultural organization that celebrates three centuries of American history, architecture and decorative arts.
		Members enjoy many benefits, including discounts on Newport Mansions Store purchases, free parking, Annual Reports, invitations to special events and programs, and an annual subscription to our journal, the Newport Gazette.
		Members also receive free and unlimited admission to regular tours at each of the Preservation Society's 11 properties.
	www.epreservation.net /Organizations/Profiles/Detail.cfm?Organization_ID=202 (123 words)

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